CFP: Reception Study (5/1/07; 9/27/07-9/29/07)

CALL FOR PAPERS2007 RSS CONFERENCE ON RECEPTION STUDYThe University of Missouri at Kansas City,Thurs, September 27th, through Sat., the 29th, 2007.

Suggestions for panels and papers in all areas of English, American, andother literatures, media, and book history are welcome. Here are somepossible panels and topics:1. The Reception of /Brokeback Mountain/, including internet activity2. The reception of serialized fiction in periodicals.3. Marxism and reception study4. Rereading /Huckleberry Finn/5. The Reception of Toni Morrison's fiction6. Reading Torture Or Human Rights in Literature7. Rereading Stanley Fish's Is there a Text in this Class?8. Reception and nineteenth-century (American) women's fiction9. Trans-Atlantic receptions of British and American fiction10. American fiction and reception as (re)construction11. Feminist theories of reception12. Reception and/of children's literature(s)13. The politics of reception study14. Reception and the opening of the literary canon15. Television audiences and reception16. Reception and dissemination of print culture17. Active audience theory/study18. Intersections between reception study and effects studies

Speakers:1. John Frow,"Afterlife: Texts as Usage"He was Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at theUniversity of Edinburgh and is presently Chair of English Language andLiterature at the University of Melbourne. His publications include/Genre/ (2005); /Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures/(with Tony Bennett and Michael Emmison, 1999); /Time and CommodityCulture: Essays in Cultural Theory and Postmodernity/ (1997); /CulturalStudies and Cultural Value /(1995); /Australian Cultural Studies: AReader/ (1993); and /Marxism and Literary History/ (1986)

2. Janet Staiger,"The Revenge of the Film Education Movement: Cult Movies and FanInterpretive Behaviors"She is William P. Hobby Centennial Professor in Communication andProfessor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas atAustin. Her recent publications include /Media Reception Studies/(2005),/ Perverse Spectators : The Practices of Film Reception/(2000), /Blockbuster TV: Must-See Sitcoms in the Network Era/ (2000)and the co-edited volume (with David Gerstner) /Authorship and Film/(2002).

3. Patsy Schweikart,"The Receiving Function: Ethics and Reading."She is Professor of English and Women's Studies, Purdue University. Shehas published on feminist reception study, including "Toward a FeministTheory of Reading"/ /and the co-edited volumes /Gender and Reading /and,most recently, /Reading Sites: Social Difference and Reader Response /

4. David Paul Nord,"Ephemeral and Elusive: Journalism History as Reading History"He is Professor of Journalism and American Studies, Indiana Universityand the author of /Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birthof Mass Media in America /(2004); /Communities of Journalism: A Historyof American Newspapers and Their Readers/ (2001); and /Newspapers andNew Politics: Midwestern Municipal Reform/ (1981). He is co-editing/The Enduring Book: Publishing in Post War America/, Volume 5 of /AHistory of the Book in America/ (forthcoming).

Proposals are due by May 1. *Selected papers from the conference will bepublished in Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History (the RSSjournal)*. To suggest papers or panels or for more information, pleasecontact the organizers:Philip Goldstein Tom PoeUniversity of Delaware, Department of Media Studies,333 Shipley St., University of MissouriWilmington, DE 19801 -Kansas Citypgold_at_udel.edu 202 Haag Hall 5120 Rockhill Road Kansas City, MO64110